I would have to say that I liked Turkey under the Generals and that I fear Turkey under the Politicians.
It was the Military's duty to protect the modern Republic of Turkey from the Islamists. And yes the AK Party has helped the economy -- but they lied to the public that they would not impose Islamism on Turkey.
Ergenekon is suspected of planning bombings, assassinations and disinformation to stir panic and precipitate an army coup. Hundreds have been arrested in the investigation that critics accuse the government of using as part of a campaign to suppress any opposition.
"Ergenekon" I guess is Turkey's "vast right-wing conspiracy" except Erdogan had the active and retired military, the journalists, the professors, the men and women in the street arrested and imprisoned. Something that the Clintons did not have the guts to try -- will Obama try it?
Turkey patriots face a deadly Islamist government and growing Islamist establishment. We face a similar situation.
A radical government and a growing radical establishment of 1960s pukes and their issue. Arguably they are already the Establishment.
For the aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus spoiled brats and their bratty ideological issue the Constitution and our "heritage of laws not men" are like restrictive parents.
In childhood many either defeated or never faced curbs on their behavior. The meek rebelled in adulthood.
Restrictions continue to be stressful for them -- unbearable. Nothing is too vile, too violent to defeat the restrictions of the Constitution and our "heritage of laws not men" on their desires and feeeeeeeeeelings.
Nearly as vile and violent as Islamism (political Islam, jihad, and sharia law).
LOL. Leave it to Reuters to obfuscate the obvious.
Islamofascist PM Erdogan:
- "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers..."
- "Mr. Peres, you are older than me. And your voice is very loud. I know that it is because you feel guilty. You better know that I will not sound that loud. And when killing is the case, you know how to kill very well. I know how you killed the children on the beaches, I know how you shot them. Two ex-prime ministers of your country once told me important things. You have had such prime ministers who said, "When I enter Palestine on a tank, I feel [in a different way] happy." You have had PMs who said to me "I feel happy when I am on a tank while entering Palestine." And you give me those numbers. I would release their names, in case some of you might be curious of. I also condemn those who acclaim this cruelty, because I think it is a crime against humanity as well."
- "Those who do not want to take a side will be eliminated from the process"
- "Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites."
etc. etc.
What a turkey.